HIGHLIGHTED EVENTS
Friday, October 5
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Hospitality/Registration Center open
First floor,
Be sure to stop by so that you can receive the final and complete schedule of events, along with any meal tickets you may have purchased. Even if you aren’t planning on attending any events, stop by the hospitality table to pick up materials we’ll be providing for all families.
8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Experience Academic Life at
Visit a classroom with your son or daughter. Most regularly scheduled classes are open and you are encouraged to attend them with your students.
8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
UST Bookstore Open
12 p.m.
UST Alumni Association First Friday Luncheon Series
The Depot,
As part of the Family Weekend events, guests are invited to join us to see alumnus Ali Selim '83, writer, producer and director of the award winning film "Sweet Land" share his insights into producing and directing his first project that was filmed in Minnesota and propelled him into national film-making recognition. (You may want to watch the movie before the luncheon.)
The luncheon is held at The Depot in downtown Minneapolis from noon to 1:15 p.m. Cost is $25. Register by September 28 at www.stthomas.edu/alumni/events. No refunds will be made and no tickets will be sent. Please specify “Family Weekend Guest” in the comments section of your registration for special “Reserved Seating” with other parents. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the First Friday Luncheon Series please contact UST Alumni Association, (651) 962-6430 or ustalumni@stthomas.edu.
3 p.m.
Electronic Community: The Impact on Personal Relationships
Common Ground House of Hospitality
5-7 p.m.
Family Reception
Murray-Herrick Campus Center Fireside Room
Please join staff and students from Multicultural Student Services and the Office of International Student Services for our Family Weekend reception.
5-8 p.m.
Fall Art Tour
O'Shaughnessy
Visit as many as six galleries in a few hours! Meet the artists, listen to music and enjoy refreshments. Getting from gallery to gallery is easy - just hop one of four buses that will travel continuously between the campuses.
8 p.m.
Campus Lecture: Soledad O’Brien
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center (OEC) Auditorium
Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN: Special Investigations Unit, reporting hour-long documentaries throughout the year and filming in-depth series on the most important ongoing and breaking news stories for all major CNN programs.
O'Brien joined CNN in July 2003 as the co-anchor of the network's flagship morning program, American Morning, and distinguished herself by reporting from the scene on the transformational stories that broke on her watch. Her efforts following Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in
In 2007, O'Brien garnered a Gracie Allen Award for her reporting from
Saturday, October 6
7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Hospitality/Registration Center open
First floor,
Be sure to stop by so that you can receive the final and complete schedule of events, along with any meal tickets you may have purchased. Even if you aren’t planning on attending any events, stop by the hospitality table to pick up materials we’ll be providing for all families.
8 a.m.
5K Fun Run/Walk
Meet at the John Ireland statue west of
Sponsored by STAR and the Box Office & Expeditions. A free T-shirt will be given to all participants.
8:00-4:30 p.m.
Murray-Herrick Campus Center Rm 304
Various lectures are planned regarding technology entrepreneurship, idea validation and opportunity assessment, issues in intellectual property licensing, marketing and sales for early stage companies, networking, and business plans. Tickets required. For a reduced rate of $10, you can visit as many lectures as you would like (not including lunch). Purchase tickets at the Family Weekend hospitality desk.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
UST Bookstore Open
10 a.m.-12 p.m.
A Tradition of Academic Excellence
Lectures from some of the most celebrated UST faculty members. Each lecture is offered at both 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Dr. David Brennan, Department of Marketing, Opus College of Business, "Disruptive Innovations in Retailing," McNeely Hall Rm 109.
Disruptive innovations transform industries quickly and completely. This presentation will focus on disruptive innovations in retailing. What are they; why are they important; and what are their impacts. Department stores, supermarkets, discounters, regional malls, category killers and etailing will be examined.
Dr. Wendy Wyatt, Department of Communication and Journalism, College of Arts & Sciences, "Mass Media Ethics,” McNeely Hall Rm 110
In the mid-1980s, the Hastings Center proposed five goals for the teaching of ethics: 1) stimulating the moral imagination, 2) recognizing ethical issues, 3) developing analytical skills, 4) learning to tolerate disagreement and ambiguity, and 5) eliciting a sense of moral obligation. Throughout the capstone media ethics course, my students and I work toward these goals by grappling with the ethical lapses and triumphs of media professionals and media organizations. Surely, because most students in the class hope to find jobs in journalism, advertising or public relations, focusing on the media is important. But media professionals aren’t the only ones with responsibilities. At the end of the semester, the class spends time considering what we as citizens owe the media. Through a discussion of critical media literacy, this session will focus on goal #5 and our own obligations to the media. Join me for a topic that’s not only relevant to media ethics students, but to everyone living in a mass-mediated world.
Dr. Sherry Jordon, Department of Theology, College of Arts & Sciences, “A Session from Theology 101: The Martyrdom of Perpetua,” McNeely Hall Rm 111
Perpetua was a Christian woman martyred in
Dr. Michael Mikolajczak, Department of English, College of Arts & Sciences, “Dystopias Are Hard Challenges: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2007 Common Text),” McNeely Hall Rm 114
C. S. Lewis says that in judging anything, from a corkscrew to a cathedral, one must know what it is and how it functions. Margaret Atwood’s novel is a dystopia–an imaginary construction of a world which is intensely unpleasant, even destructive to the human spirit. Atwood draws a world in which the
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Book Signing by Dr. John Buri, Professor, Department of Psychology
UST Bookstore
Dr. Buri will sign copies of his book, How to Love Your Wife, which is available for purchase in the UST Bookstore.
12 p.m.-2 p.m.
Fourth Annual Parent Network Brat & Chili Fest
Lower Quad
Join the Parent Network and members of the UST administration for a Family Weekend tradition. Meet our mascot Tommie and enjoy the festive atmosphere, good company and great food. Tickets required.
5:30 p.m.
Mass
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas
7:30 p.m. 
Keri Nobel in Concert!
OEC Auditorium
Keri Noble writes songs that range from aching and wistful to those that cry out in celebration. She has big, wide emotion in her music that whispers tenderly or thunders - in between, it rocks, sways, and takes you on a "profound emotional ride" says the Boston Globe.
Currently Keri has been writing songs, recording them in studio, and out performing them live around the country. Keri Noble's second album for Japan "Let Go," will release October 24th across Asia with a US release set for early 2008.
Sunday, October 7
8 a.m.
Twin Cities
The Medtronic Twin Cities
9 a.m.
Mass
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas
Handbell Choir performing.
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Family Weekend Brunch
Student Dining Room,
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Dr. Mark Dienhart, will be present to address families at 12:15 p.m. Tickets required.
11 a.m.
Mass
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas
Liturgical Choir performing.
